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BIOGRAPHIES Source: History
of Tuscarawas County, Ohio - Combination atlas map of Tuscarawas
County, Ohio
Strasburg, Ohio: Gordon Print., 1875, 359 pgs. L H Everts
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* MATHEWS, Chas. H., Major
* McCAULEY, Franklin W., Capt.
* McKALLIP, J. K., Rev.
* MITCHENER, Charles H. |
* MOORE, Thomas, Major
* MOZENA, Thomas H., Capt.
* MORRIS, J. L. |
CHARLES H. MITCHENER.
The subject of this biographical notice has been a resident
of Tuscarawas was County for nearly forty years. He is
a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was born
August 28, 1817. He never attended school after he was
fourteen years old, preferring a printing-office education.
When about seventeen years of age he entered a printing
establishment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he
learned the printer's trade. About this time his
father, who had been engaged in the mercantile business,
died and young Mitchener was left to work his way in
the world as an orphan.
In the spring of 1839 he left the Quaker City with one
hundred and twenty dollars and a chest of books, being all
his wealth, for a home in the West, and found his way to
Canal Dover, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and here, in
connection with another party, started the Ohio Democrat.
In 1841 he removed it to New Philadelphia, where it has
since been issued. In 1846, Mr. Mitchener sold
the paper to Messrs. Elliot & Mathews, who are
its present conductors.
Mr. Mitchener has served the people of
Tuscarawas County in numerous positions of public trust.
In 1843 he was appointed Clerk of the Common Pleas and
Supreme Courts of the County, and filled the office till
1850. In September, 1851, he was admitted to the bar.
In 1852 he was Presidential Elector on the Pierce electoral
ticket. In 1873-74 he was a member of the
Constitutional Convention that met first at Columbus and
afterwards at Cincinnati.
In March, 1842, Mr. Mitchener was united in
marriage with Miss Martha Elliot, sister of Jesse
D. Elliot (Editor of the Ohio Democrat).
Miss Elliot, is a native of Mansfield, Ohio, and
was born in the year 1818. This union has been blessed
with a family of nine children, - five sons and four
daughters; two of the latter are deceased.
The eldest son, Major Charles E. Mitchener,
learned the printer's trade of his uncle, J. D. Elliot,
and for a time after his father's disposal of the
Ohio Democrat remained on that paper as its editor.
During the late civil war he rendered his country
patriotic service; first in the 16th O. V. I., as
Sergeant-Major, in answer to the three months' call; then in
the 51st O. V. I., as Second Lieutenant Company A, where he
remained only eight months, being at the expiration of that
time promoted to the position of Adjutant in the 80th O. V.
I. Sickness soon compelled his resignation. He
subsequently recruited Company K for the 87th O. V. I.,
which he led through the Potomac campaign, till he engaged
in the recruiting service, and formed Company B for the
129th O. V. I., and upon the organization of the regiment
was made Major of the same, and in that capacity served with
it in Southern Kentucky and Eastern Tennessee, under General
Burnside, until mustered out of service in March, 1864.
In 1866, Major Mitchener became editor of the
Guernsey County Jeffersonian, which position he
occupied till 1873. He subsequently spent a year in
Baltimore, Maryland, as one of the proprietors of the
National Bond and Collecting Agency. He is at present
engaged in the People's Deposit Bank of New Philadelphia.
The second son, William A. Mitchener, is engaged
in the legal profession in Baltimore, Maryland. The
third son, James P., resides upon a farm in Pike
County, Ohio. The fourth son, Edmond P., is a
machinist in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. The
youngest, Robert W., is telegraph operator in the
office of the C. T. V. R. R. at Uhrichsville. The
oldest and only married daughter is Mrs. William R. Pugh,
of Fairfield County, Ohio. The youngest daughter,
Fannie, resides with her parents in New Philadelphia.
Mr. Mitchener has been practicing law in New
Philadelphia for nearly a quarter of a century, and has for
many years stood at the head of the bar in Tuscarawas
County. His clearness of thought, soundness of
judgment, and cautiousness in action give his opinions great
weight. For many years he has stood forth as the
leader of the Democratic party in this County. Upon
several occasions he has been before the people for
prominent political positions, but at times when his party
was in the minority. With the present complexion of
the County, however, he would "pass up" without an effort.
He has in preparation a history of Tuscarawas County, -
a few chapters of which have been published in the Ohio
Democrat, - which promises to be a most valuable
and popular contribution to the community, and no man in the
County is more competent to perform such a service.
Of late years, Mr. Mitchener
has been gradually withdrawing from the active practice of
the law and devoting his time to farming, and more especial
to landscape gardening. He possesses a highly
developed aesthetic nature, and feels that time and money
are well expended in the gratification of his love of the
beautiful.
His home is a charming spot in the western part of
the village, and, with its trees, shrubs, flowers, and
walks, forms one of the most delightful summer retreats in
the County. Here in the quiet of his family this
highly-esteemed citizen is spending the evening of his life.
THE PEOPLE'S DEPOSIT BANK.
of New Philadelphia, Ohio, began business
April 1, 1875; Thomas Moore and Charles H.
Mitchener, proprietors. It is a partnership
between the proprietors under the laws of Ohio, which make
the private property of each partner liable for the payment
of partnership debts.
It is proposed by this bank to receive deposits as low
as one dollar at a time, thus giving the youth of both
sexes, as well as adult males and females, an opportunity to
privately and confidentially lay up small sums at interest,
instead of spending all they earn in supposed articles of
necessity, but which - at least money- are found to have
been of no use or necessity whatever. |
J. L. MORRIS was born
in South Wales, January 9, 1839. His boyhood and youth
were spent in mining coal in the vicinity of his nativity.
He emigrated to America in 1860 and located in Luzerne
County, Pennsylvania, where for some years he was engaged in
working mines. In 1867 he came to Ohio, and in 1868
settled at what is now called Morristown, near Dennison.
In 1860 he married Miss Jane Powell, by whom he has had a
family of five daughters and one son. A fine view of
this gentleman's residence appears among the illustrations
in this work. |
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